Stugotz

Do you guys feel like sports is equipped in any of these instances to actually just deal with an episode when families aren't equipped, mental health professionals aren't equipped?

Sports?

But when you're having a situation where a guy is melting down in public and throwing away his career as his family tries to intervene but no one can talk sense to him, that's like classic diagnosis of mental health episode if we were able to do this just watching it on television.

You can't rescue this person.

No, go ahead.

How do you rescue this person?

The thing about this, though, Trista, that I keep coming back to because I lived it with my brother.

I don't know that I articulated this well enough to people yesterday when I say that my brother became someone that I did not recognize.

The height of a manic episode is everyone telling you you're crazy and you looking back and saying, no, I'm the only one who's right.

Everyone else is crazy, and that's how you lose everyone.

The manic bulletproof episode, never mind the bigoted ideas, just where you lose everybody is, no, the world's priorities are wrong, and mine are correct.

I'm being wronged here by a bunch of people who have this all wrong.

That's what the episode is.

But what is the responsibility?

Because we are talking about, look, sports is supposed to be a place where all this stuff gets sussed out in all the ways it gets sussed out.

What is her responsibility as public voice and face of a team in a sport where they also have had a number of

anti-feelings from the public because this is a disproportionately gay league.

And so all of this stuff merging together, what is the responsibility of the journalist and the coach here?

Yeah, but that's not what she's asking about.

Tristan's not asking, how do you feel about your son melting down?